"Twisted Vision"

I’ve been about 3 weeks on this one, but, as you’ll recall I don’t work very hard – maybe 3 hours a day on average.About half my time these days seems to consist of looking for exactly the right piece of wood with exactly the right grain pattern in exactly the right orientation. Since such a piece rarely exists, it takes a long time. Another half of my time consists of working out what to do next – sure, I have a drawing, but once the first cut is made that starts to change. Another half on this project was spent trying to work out how to bevel edges on such small legs. Add yet another half trying to work out how to glue the legs on and you can see that I do almost no actual work at all!

My original drawings for this were from about a year ago. I made the “container” bit, then panicked, which resulted in several days finding the right piece of beech to make legs I didn’t use…

So I went back to “Plan A” – the original, funky leg version.First with ULQF (Ultra-low quality fibreboard)...

Then I tweaked that and made some real legs with mahogany…

But they just weren’t really the right colour, or, in fact, size.So I ended up back at beech – the side of the plank (which, I guess, makes it quartersawn) in order to avoid grain direction.

Glueing up was somewhat tortuous – not a useable right-angle in sight – this is how the last leg got glued on…

It’s ended up a bit strange.Things look like they aren’t level, but they are.That they’re not straight, but they are.That the top isn’t square, but it is.Maybe that’s success, or maybe not.

What’s the intended purpose?I first checked to make sure you aren’t an ether-based incarnation of my wife, which you appear not to be :)To be brutally honest, it never had an intended purpose.I was always aware that, later on, I could make the “look, you can put something in here”, argument.But also that it probably wouldn’t fly.

Reflecting on the finished thing – I’m now looking for a chubby, square candle.In times future, of course, I will claim that to have been the intent all along.

-- "Do not speak – unless it improves on silence." --- "Following the rules and protecting the regulations is binding oneself without rope."

Very nice and unique…I think the intended purpose is just having fun in the shop.I personally like the process of constantly changing ideas and designs…it somehow keeps my brain thinking and trying to be creative.